Tail-anchored membrane protein insertion into the endoplasmic reticulum

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 787-798

  Hegde, Ramanujan S ^a   Keenan, Robert J ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRANSLOCON;

ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 81855184492     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3226     Document Type: Review

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